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3rd May 2017

Capturing Mary (2007)

Trivia: In the opening scene, we see a long row of women's shoes. All the shoes have matching pairs, except two, near the beginning, which are very different.

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3rd May 2017

Stargate (1994)

Trivia: The producers, the casting agents, really wanted Jaye Davidson, from "The Crying Game", to play the head bad guy, but Jaye said, "No more movies", so they kept upping the money they would pay him - this is before actors nowadays get phenomenal money - and it was only when they got to a million dollars that he said yes.

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3rd Oct 2016

Hannibal Rising (2007)

Trivia: In this film, Hannibal is left-handed, but in "Silence of the Lambs" and the other films with Hannibal in them, he is right-handed.

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3rd Oct 2016

Casino Royale (2006)

Trivia: In the last conversation Bond has with M, he said, "The bitch is dead." This is nearly identical to the last line in the original book, where Bond says, "The bitch is dead now."

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Trivia: When Madeleine is in the morgue, we get a shot of a table and on that table is a jar with a brain and formaldehyde in it, and on the jar is a sign and the sign says "abnormal." This is a homage to the film "Young Frankenstein": Dr Frankenstein sent Igor to the morgue to get a specific brain, an intelligent man's brain, but Igor was startled and dropped the intelligent brain, so looked around for another one and he did: He found a brain with the label "abnormal" on it, and that is why the monster was so hard to teach and control.

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24th Mar 2016

Murder She Said (1961)

Trivia: Mrs Kidder, the afternoon help, is played by the actress Joan Hickson, who went on to play Miss Marple herself in many films.

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22nd Mar 2016

Baby Mama (2008)

Trivia: When Cate goes into a shop and asks for a banana smoothie, she gets it then walks out without paying for it.

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Trivia: In this film Gregory Peck is attacked by large vicious dogs, dogs that can be trained to attack and kill; and in the film "The Omen", again Gregory Peck is attacked by very (or the same) vicious dogs.

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23rd Jan 2016

American Sniper (2014)

Trivia: During Chris' final tour he is on the phone to his wife, telling her he's ready to come home. He and about eight other men are pinned down on a rooftop - if you look closely at a left-handed rifleman, after firing over a thousand bullets, and over a period of about 30-60 minutes, he doesn't wound or kill one enemy man.

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14th Jan 2016

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Trivia: Near the end, in the middle of the maze, there are raised circles on the ground, the outside circle the biggest, and onto the next, smaller circle and so on. Similar circles feature in "Hellboy", also directed by Guillermo del Toro.

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14th Jan 2016

The Machinist (2004)

Trivia: Peppered throughout this film, especially in the suspense scenes, is Bernard Hermann's music for the film "Psycho."

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14th Dec 2015

The Graduate (1967)

Trivia: When Ben rings up Mrs Robinson, to ask her to have sex with him in the hotel, and she says she'll be thirty minutes. While waiting for her, Ben goes into the ballroom, where an affair is taking place. The two women who greet Ben are both regulars in the TV series "Bewitched"; the first is Alice Ghostley who played Esmeralda their jittery maid, and the second is Marion Lorne who played Aunt Clara, Sam's whacky aunt who often lands in the fireplace, when her radar for landing spots goes mad, again.

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11th Sep 2015

The Shipping News (2001)

Trivia: When Quoyle shows his aunt and her assistant the front page of the paper he has just started to work for, his aunt says, when she sees the picture of a large yacht with all the sails up, "They took off without paying us for all the work we did." The assistant says, "When you find them and write about it, you can get the Pulitzer." The author of the book, E. Annie Proulx, actually got a Pulitzer for the book, "The Shipping News."

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Trivia: In the opening scene, Alice - a young girl - lives on a farm with her parents/grandparents, and her mother/grandmother, standing at the back door, calls Alice in for dinner, and the voice has to belong to Ellen Burstyn. When Alice grows up, she is played by Ellen Burstyn.

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Trivia: In this film, a contact of Bond's, Henderson, was played by the actor Charles Gray, and he was killed in the first ten minutes of the film. Then, four years later, in "Diamonds Are Forever", the same actor, Charles Gray, played Bond's nemesis, Blofeld, and Bond killed him because Blofeld killed Bond's bride, Tracy, in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Blofeld was played three times - Donald Pleasance, Telly Savalas and Charles Gray; you couldn't get three more different actors; so odd to get a deceased good guy, Charles Gray, to play Blofeld four years later.

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20th Aug 2014

What Lies Beneath (2000)

Trivia: There are quite a few close-up scenes filmed through glass, on the floor, with the camera on the bottom side and the actors on the top side. For example, when Claire is paralysed, Norman bends down and talks to her before picking her up and carrying her upstairs - when they are downstairs, Claire is lying on glass with the camera filming her from below.

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20th Aug 2014

The Keep (1983)

Trivia: When Alberta Watson and Scott Glenn are together for the first time, in the inn's spare bedroom, there is a mirror on the wall that shows Alberta's reflection but not Scott's, and Scott is standing between her and the mirror.

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Trivia: In the film, The Birdman never actually kept birds at Alcatraz; he kept them at other prisons, but not Alcatraz.

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Trivia: After Alex takes Dan's daughter for an hour or two, and Beth has a car accident, as she frantically searches for her daughter, Dan rushes over to Alex's place to kill her, but he has enough sense not to, and, in a Hitchcock way, the camera zooms in on a very large knife that Dan puts down on a ledge, with know-it-alls yelling, "It has your fingerprints on it," he walks away. The original ending had Alex killing herself with the knife that has Dan's fingerprints on it and Dan going to jail for Alex's murder. When they showed this version to a test group, all of them yelled and screamed so much that they had to change the ending.

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